Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,
the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, and TransAfrica Forum, February 2, 2006 [alleging that the US violated Haitian sovereignty by illegally preventing the flow of resources into Haiti in an attempt to destabilize the regime of former President Aristide and eventually overthrow and kidnap him in 2004, and seeking various forms of declaratory relief]. Excerpt:

This petition demonstrates that the IGH, the United States, and the Dominican Republic violated the rights of the Haitian people through a long-term, systematic plan that included: a) undermining the democratically elected Haitian government through a development-assistance embargo and by supporting both unarmed and armed opposition groups; b) overthrowing the democratically elected Haitian government and kidnapping its President in February 2004; and c) replacing it with a government with no constitutional or electoral legitimacy.

Read the full text of the letter [PDF]. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.